> Maybe I am naive, but I doubt that the police would have an official policy
> of brutality. After all, that would give the lawyers something to use
> against the police in court. However, there may be an unofficial "policy" of
> brutality. But with no official policy, there is always plausible
> deniability.
Show us the evidence of this unofficial policy. Find the officers and the
supervisors you were told, verbally or in memos, to execute this
unofficial policy.
Brutality by the force is intolerable just as brutality by individual
officers. We have all seen media portrayals of incidents that were
plainly brutality, and those officers must be punished. But I really
doubt that the MPD has a policy, official or otherwise, that says they
need to go beat up the populace to keep them in line. It is counter
productive. They would lose my support and trust if I thought they did.
Under CODEFOR brutality claims have actually declined.
Rich McMartin
Bryant Neighborhood.
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